His past good seasons corresponded with better conditioning. How much of that better conditioning came with the aid of PEDs is an open question, of course. Thing that stinks for Melky is, even if he is clean now, no one will ever give him the benefit of the doubt on it.

Who knows how much that had to do with his problems last season? I was baloming the turf @ Rogers Centre for the dead legs he had all year until they shut him down, but this makes me think the guy just wasn’t right. He could have a nice bounce back season batting second in that lineup.

Yeah, getting caught cheating and lying about it/trying to set up a false website in an attempt to avoid the consequences of cheating will tend to cost a player any benefit of the doubt he might have otherwise received.